''Courtin' Wildcats'' is a 1929 American

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directed by Jerome Storm and produced by and starring

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. The soundtrack was recorded using the

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sound-on-film system. The film based on the short story "Courtin' Calamity" by William Dudley Pelley, which had previously been filmed in 1924 as the silent western '' The Sawdust Trail''. It was distributed through the

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. A silent version was also produced for theatres unequipped with sound equipment.

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A print of ''Courtin' Wildcats'' is preserved by the

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.''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'', p. 36, c.1978 by the American Film Institute

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* 1929 films 1920s Western (genre) comedy films 1929 comedy films American black-and-white films Films based on works by William Dudley Pelley Films directed by Jerome Storm Silent American Western (genre) comedy films Universal Pictures films 1920s American films 1920s English-language films Part-talkie films English-language Western (genre) comedy films {{1920s-silent-comedy-film-stub

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